Thurrock Council's cabinet is meeting on Tuesday evening to decide whether to request its elections get cancelled in May.

Southend-on-Sea City Council has proposed increasing its tax on residents by 4.99% in April. Labour leader Daniel Cowan said ...

Works to demolish the Queensway footbridge took place over the weekend (January 9-12). These works are part of Southend City ...

A university has announced it is closing one of its campuses and is in the process of axing 400 full-time jobs. The University of Essex said its Southend-on-Sea campus would shut from summer 2026. The ...

It boasts the world's longest pleasure pier, plus no fewer than nine award-winning Blue Flag beaches. But residents of Southend-on-Sea fear that a new waste collection system designed to satisfy ...

A busy road junction has been closed after a police car was involved in a crash and overturned. Essex Police said it was told at 12:55 BST that one of its marked cars collided in Southend-on-Sea while ...